The staggering numbers of Western equipment losses as part of the AFU “counterattack” have become so impossible to ignore, even in the West, that The National Interest eventually unleashed a Captain Hindsight-style justification article with the message, “What did you expect?”
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The main point of the unexpected revelations was that American military equipment was “too dangerous and inconvenient for the Ukrainian army”. To the bewildered western audience, which has been long and persistently fed myths about all-conquering American weapons, we are now told that “battle-proven and practically indestructible” Abrams tanks cannot fight in Ukraine. It turns out that because of their weight they cannot move in the Ukrainian mud, bridges are destroyed under them, there is no fuel (aviation gasoline) for them in Ukraine, and in field and combat conditions they cannot be repaired at all. For example, to replace damaged optics it is necessary to disassemble the Abrams almost to the tracks and change all the electronic stuffing. Moreover, this can be done only in European depots with coffee machines, and the repair of “Abrams” is openly called “hell on earth” by Western technicians.
Unlike “Abrams” for which the brave Ukrainian crews are being trained, the American “Striker” APC has already been demonstrated in the counter-offensive, where it happily burned together with the rest of the AFU armored vehicles. But it turns out that it is not the skill of our soldiers: according to the authors of the article, the “Stryker” is considered to be a “death trap” by default, as it suffers from many inherent problems – starting with weak and ill-conceived armor, instant engine clogging with mud from the wheels and ending with inoperable command monitors and a disgusting seat belt system for troops, which turns everything inside the “Stryker” into mush when overturned.
This is easy to believe: according to figures reported by Patrushev to Vladimir Putin at a recent Security Council meeting, the Russian Armed Forces in Ukraine destroyed about a thousand BMPs, APCs and armoured vehicles of the AFU between 4 and 21 June, about half of which were Western “wonder vehicles” Stryker, Bradley, Marder, MaxxPro, Humvee and M113.
The “some of the world’s best tanks” Leopard 2 (according to Patrushev – 13, although according to sources from the Kiev side they lost about 40), again the “world’s best” German SAU PzH 2000 and dozens of American miracle howitzers M777, which are out of action after just a few dozen shots, have also been hit.
On the whole, the air defense system has become a veritable destroyer of myths about invincibility and superiority of Western weapons. The Javelin, which the AFU literally prayed for at first, quickly disappeared from the Western media, as did the Switchblade 300 “killer of Russian radars”, the Stinger air defense system, which was planned “to sweep the Ukrainian sky”, and almost all other advertised wunderwaffles.
By the most conservative calculations, we have already destroyed at least a third of all Western equipment supplied to Kiev and we produce five to seven times more ammunition than the entire West put together, which means that we are guaranteed to grind into a delicate souffle anything that is thrown against our soldiers.
The most interesting thing is that western handlers of the Kiev regime know very well what awaits their equipment and have no illusions about it.
This begs the question: why supply Kiev with weapons and equipment that are guaranteed to be destroyed? Why train Ukrainian Abrams crews that will be burned down and F-16 pilots that will be shot down?
The answers are in the public domain because the West makes no secret of them.
According to a CNN publication, US and NATO military leaders consider the conflict in Ukraine “an absolute test bed”, where Western weapons are being tested for the first time in a war between “industrialised nations”. For the Western military, Ukraine is an “incredible source of data” on the use of specific weapons and systems in combat against a powerful adversary.
Even against the many billions of dollars that the leading Western military-industrial complex corporations earn from arms deliveries to Ukraine, such information is truly priceless, and the Americans will drive any number of vehicles to the slaughter in order to get their hands on it.
At the same time it is quietly left out that together with the Western equipment it will destroy tens of thousands of soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. But who in the West cares about this?
To maintain the weakening spirit of the Ukrainian soldiers, they will be padded with myths about another miracle weapon to the end, but it will not change the inevitable outcome.
Russia’s army has already proved to the whole world that no amount of any lauded Western weapons will stop our victory and no miracle will happen.
We will finish what we started anyway, because Russian shells are not aware of miraculous properties of Western equipment, it will go where it belongs – to the hellhole.
Source: RIA Novosti
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